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FALL RIVER Kan. - As the full reds, oranges and yellows set in on the leaves of the hundreds of trees filling this hilly country in southeast Kansas, Ray Walton says his private hunting preserve Flint Oak is entering its 24th year in business with new opportunities.
Walton hopes the completion of two new major construction projects will turn the 300-member club, 75 miles southeast of Wichita, into a yearround business.
With work nearly complete on a $3 million, 30,000-squarefoot guest lodge and the moving of dirt for a new 100-acre lake, Walton says Zee are new opportunities ahead to grow the private club's non-member business.
The new two-story lodge adds 40, two-bed rooms to Flint Oak, and boosts its capacity for overnight stays by members from 80 to 140.
It was built by Wichita-based Hutton Construction Corp.
The new lodge, which also adds a second restaurant and gift shop on the club's 2,800-acre preserve, includes more space for offsite meetings by companies and organizations with the construction of three new meeting rooms.
It's a piece of business that Walton believes it can grow among corporate members and non-members, especially in the off season, which runs from April 1 through Sept. 30.
The other element to new growth for Flint Oak is the development of a new lake...